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THE GREAT PARK // SCHAUFENSTERKONZERT

Name: THE GREAT PARK // SCHAUFENSTERKONZERT
Start: 2026-02-12T20:00+0100
End: 2026-02-12T22:00+0100
Location: Kap37

Concerts & Music singer-songwriter folk alternativ

Do, 12. Feb 2026 20:00 - 22:00

Kap37 München

€ Free admission

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In the organizer's words:

THE GREAT PARK
Stephen Burch is a songwriter from England currently based in Germany.

https://www.thegreatpark.co.uk

After studying Fine Art in the west of England he relocated to Ireland to live and work on his family's remote farm. Whilst waiting for large oil paintings to dry he began making music with acoustic guitars, the family piano, barn doors, brooms and chains. Long stories evolved. Later he moved to Germany and soon his lyrical, narrative songs bore the influence of the fields of County Cork and the old streets of Berlin. Images of persecution abound, songs of urgent travel and a search for home - the unifying theme is that of grave drama within 'The Great Park'.

Stephen has toured Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark and the UK. He has released over 30 albums on his own DIY label Woodland Recordings, a compilation through the German label Timezone, has provided music for several films and theater pieces, and his songs have been covered on releases by Liz Green, Fee Reega, Kristin McClement, Squalloscope, Aaron Dall, The Sons of Noel And Adrian, Thirty Pounds of Bone and others.

He likes rooms with echo, train journeys, streetcars and girls on bicycles.

Press

"An uncompromising musician who makes music with confirmed optimism. Not to make a living from it, but because he lives for it." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"The fact that the folk songs never drift into kitsch also has to do with Stephen Burch's vocals, which are anything but smooth. He often comes across so shaky, even brittle, that Conor Oberst's style from Bright Eyes seems almost polished in comparison."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"A singer-songwriter is always also a poet. And Burch is a very special one." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"Poetry, as if taken from life."
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

"Here's a poet born on January 1st, the day Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt died, a stalwart who has the whole damn year ahead of him on his birthday, but then rushes off, hides and writes a song as a pledge for his inability."
(Loop, Zurich)

"The Great Park possesses great lyrical talent... In addition to his sensitive voice, this is probably the special quality of the musician that makes him stand out from the great gray mass of the singer-songwriter scene. "(Laxmag.de)

"Great songwriter cinema" (Kieler Nachrichten)

"No overloaded music, everything is finely tuned, straightforward and reduced to the elementary, so that nothing distorts the view." (Kieler Nachrichten)

"Superficially neo-romantic folk with a double bottom."(blackmagazin.com)

"...wonderful and bewitching...Every song a story, every story full of heartbreaking beauty. Beauty that is in the words, in the stories and often hidden behind terrible things that are getting told" (Nothing But Hope And Passion)

"The Great Park paints wide landscapes of longing, with small but forceful words. Romanticism weaves its ways through the lyrics - arms are fled from, losses felt, snows considered, darknesses breathed." (Diary Of An Unborn Writer)

"Intimate morose folk songs, rooted in a strange personal world of fields and birds and love and persecution." (Southcoasting blog')

"...this is a journey, a misadventurer's odyssey; it's vivid, it's elemental and the wounds are exposed. The road is pitted and merciless, stark and unyielding. The engrossing imagery will draw you in and repeated listening reveals new musical and lyrical nuances." (Nigel Johnson

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